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Building a successful and popular website is very difficult, because we need a well-designed website with a lot of unique and excellent contents. And most importantly, we need to be friend with search engines as well, so that they can bring us some new visitors everyday. This is what we called “Search Engine Optimation” (SEO). We can hire some SEO experts to do that for us, however, it would be really expensive. Quality SEO service can cost you $1,000 – $30,000 every year. If we would like to reduce the cost, we can learn SEO by ourselves.

There is a book called “The SEO Book”, I think most of us will be very familiar with this amazing book. “The SEO Book” is one of the best SEO books in the internet. Since 2004, there are over 10,000 SEO professionals have learned SEO by reading “The SEO Book”. It is an ebook with 328 pages available for only $79. And also, you can receive free lifetime updates to the SEO Book.

I found “The SEO Book” really useful for web development. At the same time, we are going to celebrate our 5,000 readers milestone. Therefore, I have contacted SEO Book, they are really kind and happy to offer us 2 copies of “The SEO Book” for Free. In order to get a chance of winning the “The SEO Book”, you can simply leave a comment under this post and tell us your opinion about one of the most important factors of SEO.

e.g. Title tags should incorporate important phrases and keywords to capture additional search visibility

Thank you for all of your support and wish you luck. I will select 2 winners on 28 January 2008.

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KNau

Over a long enough timeline good content will ultimately outperform SEO trickery every time.

Since that’s already been said, I’ll add cross linking within your own site using pages that have similar but not the same keywords. Don’t use the same tags for every page.
http://www.thatedeguy.com thatedeguy

SEO is all about visibility. The more visible your content is to the search engines the better you’ll rank. You can increase your contents visibility by increasing the links to that content. Even better, you can increase the links and have them all use keywords in the anchor text. Same goes for title tags and content. More keywords=better visibility. Keywords are key!
http://www.habitsoft.com Dobes

Measurement! It’s important that you keep track of the affects that your changes to everything else have on your page ranks, clicks, etc.. Otherwise, you’ll never know what SEO ‘tricks’ are working, and which are just nonsense being peddled by people who are pulling SEO rules out of their buttholes.
http://www.manifestationstories.com May Chu

I believe a content rich website with strategically positioned keywords are important for SEO.

I’m looking forward to winning a copy of this book
http://free-iphone-apple.blogspot.com mark

Obey the search engine’s guidelines (no hidden text, keyword stuffing, etc.).

Also, get links from quality, relevant sites.
http://www.cervon.net Gustavs Cirulis

SEO is your friend.
EDF

One of the most important factors of SEO, is to realize it’s about the web site: how the search engine, and the PEOPLE using the search engine, see your site in the listing.
Pavel

The most important thing about SEO is “perfect” content (about actuall theme is the right way). Others “tricks” goes hand to hand with it…
http://www.transwonder.com Eric

The most important thing about SEO has to be content. Without content you dont have much of a website to begin with, who would want to find that?
ryan

SEO: Content is the key…
Rob

Put most of your effort into your home page, make sure it has the most internal links, Take the time to write good copy and emphasize a wide selection of keywords, Try to get larger, trusted sites to link to your home page using a variety of your keywords in the anchor text. Spend a little time every week checking your search results in Google, Yahoo and Live search. Good SEO is an ongoing process.
mRs

Its all About Titles – URL – and MetaTags! And some of the best things are the mod_rewrite!
Kayla

Relevant content aimed for your target audience. It’s important to keep your visitors on your site and have them return later.
http://www.dremeda.com Andres Armeda

On/off page optimization, technical configuration, and dynamic content to name a few.

The most important factor is accurately targeting the keywords and phrases pertaining to your target niche!

Regards,
Dre
Alex GT

Flexibility to follow the content flow,
Protection on the keywords
Adaptation to the search engine
Customize !
http://aberrantabsurdity.com Adam Teece

Now-a-days one of the most important factors to SEO is fresh content. But luckily you can still give your older content some SEO love with deep linking.
anne

Sitemaps and robots shouldn’t be overlooked, they are one of the important factors in SEO.
http://www.tranceliquido.com Arnaldo

For me is not about writing all the most important words that describe your website, your content or enhancing your semantics, it is about understanding how the search engines work and how the combination of all you have learn about this difference can work together to make your project visible to an audience.
Thamizh

Hi,

I know content of the website will have more impact on reaching customers. I am week on that. SEO will help me to solve this problem. so i am eagerly waiting to get the free copy of that book. hope
http://www.navigeo.net Chris

For me, having good TITLE tag and matching friendly URL is the way to go. Good sitemap will also be always helpful.
The Dude

You know what? You can join the SEO “arms race” and try to game the search engines and they spend time figuring out how to defeat that (you know Google has a small army of real people viewing pages right?) so my advice is always the same:

1. Build the page right: CSS and as clutter free as possible
2. Proper Meta tags
3. Content Content Content: relevant, user friendly and complete. Refresh and use real ‘key words’
4. Link text that makes sense (no ‘Click here’ etc.,)
5. Text links for main navigation
6. Site map
7. Links from other sites

Do the basics, don’t try to play the game, and you’ll be fine.
http://lighthouse.softhint.com valentin

One thing that i thought today while searching a good domain name, is that you need to make your content match the search queries.

Another one, well a good domain name.
http://mellentine.com jared

I have no clue what the key to SEO is. I really need that book…
http://www.ebarcena.com Efrain

Your content is the most important part of SEO. Having good content can increase your chances of other sites with good page rank to link to your site.
http://www.apointoffaith.com Jonathan

SEO is about brute force visibility. Almost three quarters of website traffic (especially new visitors) is derived from the search engines. However all know how we can receive substantial hits from a web search that are not relevant to what we are seeking.

Hence SEO.

It’s about hitting the target effectively, effeciently and quickly (EEQ). The EEQ factor takes in these parameters:

1. Effective placement within the first (or at worst second) page hits/results. Thus getting the “quick look” seeker what he is searching the web for.

2. Effecient use of content, tags and shared links that help in search engine positioning. Other considerations include forum and email signatures (where allowed). Pertinent posts with site related forums. And of course much more.

3. Quick (and easy) displaying of the content/information AFTER the visitor arrives. This insures continued visits and word-of-mouth viral marketing.

And remember content is king, not advertising, not graphics and though necessary, not the ancillary links on your page (unless highly specific to your subject/content).

The HOW to all this (we know the why) is vital to effective website positioning and represents the core elements needed to place high on the pageranking of any search engine. It is a skill all top-level webdesigners, webdevelopers, et al, should and need to know.

Here’s hoping for a free book.

Jonathan
http://the-creative-media.com Rui

Quality CONTENT + Quality Backlinks + Website Accessibility

I will call it the golden triangle for successful SEO the trick is keeping the balance.

sounds simple
http://www.muruj.pl muruj.pl

Main principle of seo: “Content is king”. The second most important thing is quality backlinks.
George

Well if we have to do it ourselves these days (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291) then hey, I say we need some tips.
http://jayaprakashkv.blogspot.com Prakash

Content of the website will have more impact on visitors. However, I think, SEO plays a major roll in it.Special thanks to Jonathan and The Dude for their detailed information.
hcabbos

Thanks for the opportunity. SEO to me starts with content. Not only having good content but looking for ways to extract the most from each asset whether it’s text, pictures, links, etc.
hjcamel

Tell lies as it is true.
shuizhou

Most of the points above are valid. I don’t know exactly which is the most important factor. But the first thing of all is to make your content availabe from the web and make it visible to a search engine, I guess.

If I have to name a factor to share the chance of getting the book, I would say it is the CONTENT after all.
Zike

In my opinion the most important factors of SEO is no SEO, is the CONTENTS of the website. Everybody knows “Good wine needs no bush.” If you are the unique and rich source of some information, then you don’t need to do the SEO, because you are the only one. Most people doing SEO because they do not have confidence about their contents, well, that’s normal, not everybody could creates something. Base on that, people need competition, SEO is one of the methods of competition. Besides, something such as advertisements and co-operations are making your website more popular as well.
so let’s say, make the content of your website unique, rich and useful is the most important thing.
sampi

Most important factor of SEO is that you have bot-readable content (Yaay for css) and links pointing to your site!
http://www.focushosting.nl Neophire

In my honest opinion I think people focus too much on getting found trough search engines. SEO is always a good thing to keep in mind, but do not forget the true reason you provide information on the Internet.

For example, this blog was started on a love for new techniques and applications on the internet, which attracted those 5000+ readers, because they share the same interest.

Think about why you want to share your passion on the internet, make a decent plan for a website, and hang in there. Visitors appreciate wel written content even more, when they truely feel the person behind the article has a public passion. It makes reading the article more fun, and above all, it’s a valueable piece of mind.

Please do not think i don’t care about SEO at all, it’s a good thing to see people working on getting found, and optimizing their websites. Even better, not getting found, means no sharing of information at all…
mao

seo can let more people know your website,lots of people can through your website contact u. but i think the most important is that can let me earn more salary.
my english is just-so-so,so this seo book can improve my english.
hotwow

Great!
I think the seo book is the most book of every website administrator’s.
http://www.dotstarmedia.com Lazar

keep your code clean.
http://movepress.ailise.net/ Wai

SEO is good for you health and your site
http://www.pinnycohen.com Pinny Cohen

You should SEO your resume on job sites to get more exposure from recruiters.
http://www.byreview.com Junebugg_23

Making the content of your website unique, rich and useful is the most important thing.
SEO is next.
Lara

I don’t know a lot about SEO which is why I’d love a copy of this book. I do know that good SEO success is constantly changing do to the big search engines constant battle of spam.
Angus

If your sites can really improve people’s life, you should and can get the best return from people, so the search engine.
I think the best SEO is to try your best to do what you want to be.
http://www.fyfi.net munky

Content is the most important thing!
Buddy

great discussion. my 2 cents – content that is meaningful and clearly stated with keywords that match what your visitor is apt to search for. No point using all the phrases a client uses for his business if his customers don’t know any of his jargon. Clean Concise and Clear.
Jeroen

#1 – Keyword Usage & Content Relevance
#2 – Raw Link Power
#3 – Anchor Text Weight
#4 – Domain Authority
Cannon

Table less design and clean markup. Nearly everyone can pin and select the keywords they need, and the same goes for a good domain, but in order to push yourself over the edge, having a clean design (preferably divs) with your content listed first in sequence can push you over the edge.

As they say content is king, but only as good as you serve it. Go with CSS and leave the tables behind.
(best leave Internet Explorer behind as well -at lease until IE8- )
http://hwpedia.eu Napster

You should place your content as high as you can in the code. Search engines adore fast acces to your content.
Clean up the code and make it error-free for best usability and good ranking by web spiders.
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